https://www.wired.com/story/us-sanctions-huawei-fuel-chinas-plan-tech/

Made in China—three words often associated with cheap quality. Four years ago, the Chinese government repurposed the phrase as the name of a new industrial strategy intended to propel homegrown companies into more advanced markets, and to make them less reliant on overseas components. This month, tough new US sanctions on China’s Huawei, the world’s second-largest phone maker, made those ambitions more urgent.

“They built on Western technology expecting it would always be there. Going it alone was not the plan.”